In Parchman, I was in a cell next to Stokely Carmichael. I was young and full of excitement about what was happening in Mississippi.

The school year had just ended, and one day I said, "As soon as everyone at Harvard and Yale and the other schools hear whatâ€™s going on down here, all those students are going to come to Mississippi!"

From the next cell over, I hear Stokely say: "Hear that, everybody? The white boys and girls are going to come save us!"